“And the most important thing is, we all have to remind ourselves, all the time, that we’re not smart enough to get anything important right the first time.”
Is making mistakes not the only way to begin to do anything?
Script which adds near-native PNG support with alpha opacity to IE 5.5 and 6.
“When your business depends on people paying for the privilege of being locked up, the prison better look and feel luxurious, and the bars better not be too visible."
Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service.
“The Media Standards Trust is a group which has been working with the Web Science Research Initiative (I’m a director of WSRI) to develop ways of encoding the standards of reporting a piece of information purports to meet: “This is an eye-witness report”; or “This photo has not been massaged apart from: cropping”; or “The author of the report has no commercial connection with any products described”; and so on. Like creative commons, which lets you mark your work with a licence, the project involves representing social dimensions of information. And it is another Semantic Web application.”
The Media Standards Trust is welcome idea, although I think the most important thing is for the audience to always remain skeptical of any information coming from the media regardless of labels attached to news reports.
To ask questions and find the answers for yourself is easier than ever in the World Wide Web era.
Many useful things at Suda Projects, from Microformat cheatsheets to photography film logs and exposure cards.
“Back in 1990, Electronic Frontier Foundation cofounder John Gilmore wryly noted that ‘the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.’ In a similar fashion, the distributed and portable nature of the open source community enables projects to mimic the self healing powers of the Internet to route around regional legal encumbrances and the barriers erected in monopolized markets.”
50 years ago the Advanced Research Projects Agency, whose network would become the internet, was inaugurated. Some of those who helped make it happen tell the story.
The clever John Resig has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript using the Canvas element.
Paul Bissex kindly provides a Mercurial mirror of the Django repository. It has saved me many expletives and has introduced me to Mercurial in the process (see the book). Eccellente!
Content is often the last thing to be considered in a design project. It should be the first thing.
“Guido van Rossum, the creator of the Python language, named the language after the BBC show ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’. He doesn’t particularly like snakes that kill animals for food by winding their long bodies around them and crushing them.”
— Swaroop C H, in A Byte of Python.
Open encyclopedia and reference library written by web developers for web developers. Mark Pilgrim writes the introduction.